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Dahl, Roald. The Minpins. Jonathan Cape, 1991.

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Lowell, James Russell [published anonymously]. A Fable for Critics: A Glance at a Few of Our Literary Progenies. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1848.

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Maupassant, Guy De. Sur l'Eau [Afloat]. Paris: Libraire Ollendorff, 1888.

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Maupassant, Guy De. Afloat, translated by Douglas Parmée. NYRB Classics, 2008.

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Crevecoeur, Michel Guillaume Jean [published as J. Hector St. John]. "What Is an American?" Letters from an American Farmer. London: Davies & Davies, 1782.

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Crevecoeur, J. Hector St. John. "Letters From an American Farmer." Letters From an American Farmer and Sketches of Eighteenth-Century America, edited by Albert E. Stone. Penguin Classics, 1981.

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Foer, Jonathan Safran. Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close. Houghlin Mifflin, 2005.

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Watts, Alan. The Way of Zen. Vintage Books, 1957.

Time, you old gipsy man,
Will you not stay,
Put up your caravan
Just for one day?

Ralph Hodgson

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Hodgson, Ralph. "Time, You Old Gipsy Man." Poems. The Macmillan Company, 1917, I. 1.

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Frost, Robert. "Two Tramps in Mud Time." Saturday Review of Literature, 6 Oct. 1934, st. 3.

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Phillips, Adam. Monogamy. Faber & Faber/Pantheon Books, 1996.

The treatment of the Negro is America's greatest and most conspicuous scandal.

Gunnar Myrdal

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Myrdal, Gunnar. An American Dilemma: The Negro Problem and Modern Democracy. Vol. 2, Harper & Brothers, 1944, ch. 45, sect. 9.

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Trevelyan, George Macaulay. English Social History: A Survey of Six Centuries Chaucer to Queen Victoria. Longmans, Green and Company, 1942, ch. 8.

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Caspary, Vera. Laura. Houghton Mifflin, 1943, ch. 2. Originally published in Colliers, Oct. 1942 - Nov. 1942.

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Galsworthy, John. In Chancery. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1920, pt. 1, ch. 13.

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Congreve, William. The Way of the World. Performed by John Verbruggen and Anne Bracegirdle. Mar. 1700, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, England, UK, act 2, sc. 1.

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Congreve, William. "The Way of the World." The Way of the World and Other Plays, edited by Eric S. Rump. Penguin Classics, 2006, act 2, sc. 1.

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Kundera, Milan. Le Livre du rire et de l'oubli [The Book of Laughter and Forgetting]. Gallimard, 1979.

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Kundera, Milan. The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, translated by Aaron Asher. Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 1999.

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Dahl, Roald. "Homesickness." Boy: Tales of Childhood. Jonathan Cape, 1984.

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Hopkins, Gerard Manley. "Inversnaid." Poems by Gerard Manley Hopkins. Humphrey Milford, 1918, I. 13.

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Hopkins, Gerard Manley. "Inversnaid." Gerard Manley Hopkins: The Major Works, edited by Catherine Phillips. Oxford University Press, 2009.

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Appelfeld, Aharon. Quoted in "Writing Holocaust Memories." Written by Herbert Mitgang. The New York Times, 15 Nov. 1986.

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Barrie, J. M. What Every Woman Knows. 3 Sept. 1908, Duke of York's Theatre, London, England, UK, act 1.

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Peirce, Charles Sanders. Collected Papers of Charles Sanders Peirce: Science and Philosophy. Vol. 7, The Belknap Press, 1966, par. 591.